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This article is dedicated in memory of Haim Stier, who passed away in the course of our combined efforts to transfer his extensive collection of New Year cards to the Israel Museum. (Published at Issue...
Denise Rein
Great Expectations On Februay 24, 1924, B. E. Asscher, chairman of Amsterdam’s Ashkenazic community, informed his fellow congregants that Queen Wilhelmina of Holland planned to visit the city’s Great Synagogue with her husband, Prince Heinrich...
ראובן גפני
New in Town On the second day of the week, on 14 Nisan of the year 5675 from creation, according to the calendar we use here in the holy city of Bisan (may it be...
Shmuel Zanwil Kahane
The Rock of Destruction Location: Jerusalem Hills Near Eshtaol and Zor’a, atop a barren, stony hill along the road to Jerusalem, a lone rock juts out. Here, according to a legend recorded in the early...
When I had attained the age of 20, I began to study the Zohar and the Lurianic writings. [According to the Talmud] whoever wants to purify himself receives the aid of Heaven; and thus He...
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47 - Song of the Lonely Poet // Yemima Hovav Cowed by his reputation as Jewish national poet, Hayim Nahman Bialik’s personal life was much less tempestuous than some might have preferred. Was it lack...
40 Long Before Balfour // Ran Ichay While the Balfour Declaration is famous as the first major step toward creating a modern Jewish homeland in the land of Israel, the groundwork was laid centuries earlier,...
42 Lights, Camera, Zionism! // Zahi Cohen What made Hollywood’s favorite screenwriter work for the Zionist underground? Was it Ben Hecht’s warm heart, his stormy personality, his shocking discovery of Nazi atrocities – or all...
39 Through Lions' Gate // Yagil Henkin Why was the 1967 battle for Jerusalem so different from the way it was planned? Was the heroic capture of Ammunition Hill unnecessary? And why did General Uzi...
43 Herzl’s Psychodrama // Yehuda Moraly Writing The New Ghetto clearly changed Theodor Herzl. Could this forgotten play have been the crucible that forged The Jewish State? - Beyond the Sambatyon // Moti Benmelech The...
38 Lonely Man of Honor // Yemima Hovav Ultimate visionary and despicable rival, forged in his native Odessa but focused on the Promised Land, Ze’ev Vladimir Jabotinsky was unique – and an outsider – among...
